Masterful Marks Cartoonists Who Changed the World |
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| Beauchamp, Monte |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4516-4921-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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In a first-of-its-kind collection, award-winning illustrators celebrate the lives of the visionary artists who created the world of comic art and altered pop culture forever. Sixteen Graphic Novel Biographies of: * Walt Disney * Dr. Seuss * Charles Schulz * The Creators of Superman * R. Crumb * Jack Kirby * Winsor McCay * Hergé * Osamu Tezuka * MAD creator, Harvey Kurtzman * Al Hirschfeld * Edward Gorey * Chas Addams * Rodolphe Töpffer * Lynd Ward *...
More Description In a first-of-its-kind collection, award-winning illustrators celebrate the lives of the visionary artists who created the world of comic art and altered pop culture forever.
Sixteen Graphic Novel Biographies of:
* Walt Disney * Dr. Seuss * Charles Schulz * The Creators of Superman * R. Crumb * Jack Kirby * Winsor McCay * Hergé * Osamu Tezuka * MAD creator, Harvey Kurtzman * Al Hirschfeld * Edward Gorey * Chas Addams * Rodolphe Töpffer * Lynd Ward * Hugh Hefner
The story of cartoons--the multibillion-dollar industry that has affected all corners of our culture, from high to low--is ultimately the story of the visionary icons who pioneered the form.
But no one has told the story of comic art in its own medium--until now.
In Masterful Marks, top illustrators--including Drew Friedman, Nora Krug, Denis Kitchen, and Peter Kuper--reveal how sixteen visionary cartoonists overcame massive financial, political, and personal challenges to create a new form of art that now defines our world.